Category: Adventure

My Commerce piggy bank was full and that meant that it was time to pay Penny a visit. Penny is the girl who lives inside the coin counting machine at Commerce bank and when I visit here from time to time she challenges me to guess within $1.99 how much change I have brought to her. It sounds easy to guess within $1.99, but trust me it’s a most difficult challenge.

I’ve come very close on multiple changes, but I just sensed that something would be different this time. After pressing go, the challenge began. After weighing the bank in my right hand one last time, my guess was $58.63. Now Penny’s counting would begin.

To my delight she congratulated me on my guess as the total was $57.17, which in fact is within the $1.99 range that was necessary to claim victory. I took my receipt and headed to the teller, eager in anticipation of what glorious prize awaited me.

With an ear to ear grin I presented the receipt to the teller. He immediately congratulated me on my excellent guess work. Then presented me with a Commerce coin bank. Actually an identical Commerce coin bank as the one that I had walked in there with. I was a bit stunned, another coin bank? Not even a t-shirt? I felt a bit ripped off, and took several lollipops and a pen just to feel as though I walked away with something for my hard work.

Yesterday was Chinese New Year, the year of the rat. To celebrate the new year I thought it’d be nice to dine on some Chinese food for lunch. Esteemed co-workers and lunch club members for life Sean and Jen were up for the adventure. We decided to embark to a new Chinese restaurant that just opened this week to celebrate.

My zodiac is the snake, Sean is the dog and Jen is the rat. So it’s her year. On this glorious day not only did we eat some fine food, but we found out a bit about the Chinese zodiac.

The food was pretty good, I’d go back there for lunch again. Sean was very impressed that they offered mango chicken. Amazingly the bill for all three of us was only $13.96! Truly amazing indeed! Happy Chinese New Year to you and especially to all the rats out there.

Dined at Chuck E. Cheese yesterday. Went on my lunch break with brave co-workers: Jen, Sean, Geoff and Brittney. We had our lunch club meeting there. It was pretty cool actually. Jen brought coupons so we got a good deal on pizza and an ample supply of tokens for gaming joy.

At first it was a bit awkward, apparently they don’t get many adults with no accompanying children to spend their lunches there. But once we figured out the system of ordering pizzas and getting some find beverages it wasn’t too bad. First I challenged Geoff to a race in Mario Kart. Sadly after a few laps I broke the steering wheel, a steering wheel 507 error to be specific. Turned the wheel way too hard and from then on remembered that most of the games are designed for children and I should take it a bit lightly on them.

Skee ball was fun. Very difficult for me to break. Though I’m not very good at it, but once I figured out to roll them a lot softer my score began to go up. The bear hunting game was great. You shot bears with a shotgun light gun. Not sure why poor bears were the target in this game, but it was really fun. Sean had the high score and was a natural bear hunter. Though we were both guilty of shooting innocent cubs on a number of occasions.

Everyone seemed to have a good time. I was afraid that we’d really seem out of place and want to leave early, but we used up all the tokens. Pizza was terrible so in the future you might want to BYOP, but playing arcade games on a lunch break turned out to be quite the adventure.